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  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  Monday, April 15, 2024
 Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services
 April 15, 2024
 **Advance Estimates of U.S. Retail and Food Services**
Advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for March 2024, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $709.6 billion, up 0.7 percent (±0.5 percent) from the previous month, and up 4.0 percent (±0.5 percent) above March 2023. Total sales for the January 2024 through March 2024 period were up 2.1 percent (±0.5 percent) from the same period a year ago. The January 2024 to February 2024 percent change was revised from up 0.6 percent (±0.5 percent) to up 0.9 percent (±0.2 percent).
Retail trade sales were up 0.8 percent (±0.5 percent) from February 2024, and up 3.6 percent (±0.5 percent) above last year. Nonstore retailers were up 11.3 percent (±1.6 percent) from last year, while food services and drinking places were up 6.5 percent (±2.1 percent) from March 2023.
                                    
                                        Additional Release Tables - March 2024	         Advance Monthly Retail Trade Report                                                         [320 KB]            Advance Monthly Retail Trade Report Tables                                                         [34 KB]            MARTS Time Series (Adjusted Sales Data/Seasonal Factors—1992 to present)    Monthly Retail Trade Report - February 2024	         Retail and Food Services Sales Excel (1992 - Present)                                                         [407 KB]            Adjustment Factors for Seasonal and Other Variations of Monthly Estimates                                                         [8 KB]            Reliability of Monthly Estimates                                                         [13 KB]
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